In return, Chile agreed to build the Arica La Paz railway, a railroad connecting the capital city of La Paz, Bolivia, with the port of Arica, and Chile guaranteed freedom of transit for Bolivian commerce through Chilean ports and territory.
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Under the mandate of the so-called July package , Members are directed to clarify and improve GATT Article V ( Freedom of Transit ), Article VIII ( Fees and Formalities connected with Importation and Exportation ), and Article X ( Publication and Administration of Trade Regulations ).
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Finally the talks began and after series of proposals and counter-proposals, the Treaty of Petropolis was signed, agreed that getting through territorial compensations elsewhere in the border, the construction due to the Brazil of a railway ( the Madeira-Mamor?Railway ), freedom of transit by rail and by river to the Atlantic Ocean and a two million pounds compensation, Bolivia would give Acre.
